INTRODUCTION: WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have grown up learning a language which is LADEN with ABSTRACTION which, by installing the language and giving it a foundational role in the construction of representations of reality, are giving ourselves an exposure to introducing distorting SIMPLIFICATIONS into these language-based representations which have psychological implications.  In this case, our WESTERN CULTURE languages are CARRIERS of BINARY LOGIC which simplifies our representations of reality (i.e. REPRESENTATIONS which are no longer ‘of reality’ but of a SIMPLIFIED BINARY LOGIC BASED SUBSTITUTE REALITY).

Our sense-experience reality is of  inclusion in the WAVE-FIELD which involves a QUANTUM LOGIC representational structure wherein our language acknowledges that material forms are CONDENSATIONS of the all-including electromagnetic field.  QUANTUM LOGIC captures the WAVE-FIELD reality wherein FIGURE and GROUND are ONE; i.e. the MATERIAL FIGURES we see are CONDENSATIONS of the ALL-INCLUDING WAVE-FIELD, hence the need for QUANTUM LOGIC in our language-based representations which then gives us, for example, ‘TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE’ where there is no ABSOLUTE SPLIT between the FIGURE (the TOWNING) and the GROUND (the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE aka all-including, TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM aka WAVE-FIELD).

There are NO LOCAL AUTHORS in the transforming relational continuum wherein EVERYTHING IS RELATED (mitakuye oyasin) as is necessarily the case where the FIGURES are CONDENSATIONS in the GROUND of the ALL-INCLUDING WAVE-FIELD aka transforming relational continuum.

This essay addresses how WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, because the Common Average European language architecture builds representations using BINARY LOGIC which splits FIGURE and GROUND into TWO through the assumption that MATTER and SPACE are mutually exclusive and that SPACE is an ABSOLUTE EMPTINESS OF INFINITE EXTENT.  This BINARY LOGIC based MODEL OF REALITY sets up the SIMPLIFYING SITUATION wherein we need only concern ourselves with the MALE-ASSERTIVE CONJUGATE and its action since the FEMALE CONJUGATE; i.e. the WAVE-FIELD itself, has been REPLACED by the ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE. 

This OBSCURANTISM which removes the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING WAVE-FIELD by substituting EMPTY SPACE paves the way for one-sided MALE-ASSERTIVE ONLY representation.  INSTEAD OF ACKNOWLEDGING the natural primacy of THE FEMALE CONJUGATE of the WAVE-FIELD relative to its MALE CONJUGATE CONDENSATION in the QUANTUM LOGIC BOTH/AND relation, there is a WESTERN CULTURE RE-CASTING which INVERTS the natural order, imputing PRIMARY REALITY STATUS to the MALE CONJUGATE CONDENSATION and SUBSTITUTING ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE FOR THE FEMALE WAVE-FIELD.

We thus build OBSCURANTISM into our language with the REMOVAL of the PRIMACY of the FEMALE CONJUGATE (the WAVE-FIELD PROPER) while PROMOTING THE ‘CONDENSATION” which is the secondary MALE-ASSERTING feature of the WAVE-FIELD, to an unnatural PRIMACY. In the indigenous aboriginal culture as in Modern physics, the WAVE-FIELD is PRIMARY and being as it is NONLOCAL AND IMPLICIT (relational) the language architecture must reflect this primacy of the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT and establish the secondary nature of the LOCAL and EXPLICIT CONDENSATION of the WAVE-FIELD.  This is NOT THE CASE in WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE where we have the OBSCURANTISM of incorrectly PROMOTING the LOCAL and EXPLICIT CONDENSATION (the material content) into an UNNATURAL PRIMACY OVER THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT WAVE-FIELD (the immaterial containing field).

IN WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE WE LOSE THE ENERGY-LOADED PRESENCE OF THE ALL-INCLUDING WAVE-FIELD through the SUBSTITUTING of ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE, while the “CONDENSATION OF THE WAVE-FIELD”, aka the MATERIAL FORM, “TAKES OVER” as the PRIMARY PRESENCE; i.e. as THE LOCAL AUTHOR of ITS OWN actions and developments as is ‘written up’ using the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR.  This “LOCAL AUTHOR DELUSION” is OBSCURANTISM that serves as the WESTERN CULTURE OPERATIVE REALITY.

The MISSING FEMALE CONJUGATE or DEA ABSCONDITA that is ‘sacrificed’ to ‘open the way for the one-sided MALE-ASSERTING LOCAL AUTHOR DELUSION, is the victim of WESTERN CULTURE’S SUBSTITUTING of EITHER/OR BINARY LOGIC (CONJUGATE SPLITTING) for BOTH/AND QUANTUM LOGIC (CONJUGATE BALANCING).

WE ARE “NOT” MALE-ASSERTING AGENTS, WE ARE TRANSFORMERS WITHIN THE GREAT TRANSFORMING (WAVE-FIELD).  As inclusions within the GREAT TRANSFORMING we recognize that ‘our assertive actions’ in cultivating the land are NOT ASSERTIVE ACTIONS.  WE ARE NOT INDEPENDENT ASSERTING AGENTS, WE ARE TRANSFORMERS WITHIN the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM (WAVE-FIELD). Our movements within the crowd are RELATIVE and thus TRANSFORMATIVE (to portray them as assertive is OBSCURANTISM),  WE ARE NOT ‘INDEPENDENT ACTORS’, we are INCLUDED TRANSFORMERS.

We like to “SPEAK” in terms of OUR OWN ACTIONS or of AN INDIVIDUAL’S ACTIONS but there is NO SUCH THING since our movements are RELATIVE and comprise the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM we share inclusion in; i.e. there is NO ABSOLUTE FIXED REFERENCE FRAME as would be necessary to speak in terms of LOCAL EXPLICIT ACTIONS, or DEVELOPMENT or PRODUCTION.  Because the notions of LOCAL and EXPLICIT are ABSTRACTION, it follows that RELATIONS are the FOUNDATIONAL reality RATHER THAN ‘LOCAL, EXPLICIT THINGS, notionally with “THEIR OWN POWERS OF AUTHORING ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENT” The reality is that EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX.

 

A man’s wisdom is to know that all ends are momentary, that the best end must be superseded by a better. But there is a mischievous tendency in him to transfer his thought from the life to the ends, to quit his agency and rest in his acts: the tools run away with the workman, the human with the divine.  – Emerson.

 

The construction of exquisite HOMES and TOWNS are PSYCHOLOGICAL impressions coming from FRAGMENTATION.  TRANSFORMATION  is the REAL dynamic because there is a connection between the SHRINKAGE of FORESTS and the GROWTH of WOODEN HOME communities covering the same formerly forested hill country; i.e. the SHRINKING of FORESTS and the GROWTH of HOMES are conjugate aspects of the ONE DYNAMIC of TRANSFORMATION.  To speak of the GROWTH of TOWNS is OBSCURANTISM.

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THERE IS A PROBLEM COMING FROM OUR WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE: – THE LOCAL AUTHOR DELUSION.

 

Our sense experience informs us that we are included within a transforming relational continuum which Modern physics affirms is the all-including WAVE-FIELD and while indigenous aboriginals and Taoists/Buddhists and Advaita Vedanta adherents have evolved LANGUAGE USAGE that supports this sense-experience grounded understanding, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are using a LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE that gives the primary foundational role to LOCAL AUTHORING.  This LOCAL AUTHORING is NOT REAL but it leads to the construction of A LANGUAGE-BASED SUBSTITUTE REALITY which we are USING AS IF IT WERE REALITY.   This is the source of FRAGMENTATION in our view of the world, as Bohm points, is PSYCHOLOGICAL and NOT REAL (i.e. not sense-experience supportable).  Nietzsche identifies the same problem in slightly different terms; i.e. in terms of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR which is how we use LANGUAGE to construct a fragmented, abstract SUBSTITUTE REALITY based on the abstraction BEING. The language based contrivance of BEING is behind the FRAGMENTATION, and can be seen in terms of our construction of ‘IDOLS’, hence Nietzsche’s ‘Twilight of the Idols’ meaning that these things have to go, and this is where his commitment to PHILOSOPHIZING WITH A HAMMER’ comes from.

Indigenous aboriginals have a language architecture which presents the FLOWING NATURE OF THE WORLD OF ORU SENSE-EXPERIENCE which Modern physics has ‘verified’.  Having language that supports the understanding that we and everything are included within a flow, a ‘transforming relational continuum’ or WAVE-FIELD leads to a very different outlook and set of behaviours, than does our WESTERN CULTURE understanding of the world we live in as being constituted by an ABSTRACT BINARY LOGIC based collective of independent IDOLS in an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE CONTAINING SPACE.   This WESTERN CULTURE ABSTRACT “SUBSTITUTE REALITY” is possible INTELLECTUALLY but it CONFLICTS with our SENSE-EXPERIENCE reality.  In short, our sense-experience reality informs us that we are included in a fluid world that is in continual flux (i.e. a WAVE-FIELD in physics terms).  This is the interpretation of both Nietzsche and Bohm, and they both identify the problem of FRAGMENTATION that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have “BUILT INTO” the ARCHITECTURE of our LANGUAGE; e.g. with the abstractions of “BEING” and “ACTING” which we put together in language with NAMING and GRAMMAR, the NAMING giving us the ‘IDOLS’ that Nietzsche is encouraging us to SMASH WITH A HAMMER, in which case the ‘LOCAL ACTIONS’ will vaporize with the vaporizing of the MATERIAL BEINGS or ‘IDOLS’.

 

My philosophical investigations affirm these findings of Bohm and Nietzsche and the question becomes, HOW BEST TO CARRY ON THE TASK OF SHARING THIS WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE-BASED SELF-DECEPTION, wherein we are putting ourselves, notionally, into a SUBSTITUTE REALITY which is FRAGMENTED because it is based on these IDOLS which we accept as BEINGS, and once we accept that there are THINGS-THAT-BE, we are open to the LOCAL AUTHOR DELUSION, which hinges on our acceptance of abstraction of BEING as has been given a foundational role in our WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE.

 

“Nothing indeed has exercised a more simple power of persuasion hitherto than the error of Being, as it was formulated by the Eleatics for instance: in its favour are every word and every sentence that we utter!—Even the opponents of the Eleatics succumbed to the seductive powers of their concept of Being. Among others there was Democritus in his discovery of the atom. “Reason” in language!—oh what a deceptive old witch it has been! I fear we shall never be rid of God, so long as we still believe in grammar.” —Nietzsche, “Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer”

 

The abstraction of “BEING” lies at the very bottom of our dysfunctional SUBSTITUTE REALITY CONSTRUCTION as does REASON which is brought in by GRAMMAR.  To put this in perspective, consider indigenous aboriginal language which preserves the fluid basis of WAVE-FIELD reality in saying, ‘THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE’, and how, in WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE, BEING and REASON are brought in by saying ‘THE TOWN is GROWING’.   In one fell swoop, that fluid aspect of the ‘transforming landscape’ is gone and in its place is the BEING-BASED SUBSTITUTE REALITY of ‘the TOWN’.

 

REASON is based on RATIO or RATIONAL THINKING and it allows us THINK in terms of the LOCAL BEING expanding by virtue of its own internal authoring capacity, AND WE DON’T NEED ANY HELP FROM ANYTHING BEYOND “THE BEING”; i.e. LANGUAGE allows us to THINK of the GROWTH of the LOCAL THING as if with ITS OWN POWER OF AUTHORING SUCH GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT even if it were INDEPENDENTLY EXISTING and situated within an ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE FO INFINITE EXTENT.  RATIO aka REASON allows us to do construct language based representations of this REASONED nature as in the example “THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING, PRODUCING”.  In other words, REASON (RATIO) allows us to THINK in terms of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and development by pivoting from abstraction of BEING.   This is the “DOUBLE ERROR” of NAMING and GRAMMAR based synthetic “reality” that LANGUAGE brings us as an ABSTRACT INTELLECTUAL SUBSTITUTE or GO-BY, to give us a mental representation of our sense-experience reality..

 

The word ‘TOWN’ as an abstract LOCAL AUTHOR OF ITS OWN GROWTH  exemplifies the common WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE based representation approach.  This formulation is rightly critiqued by Nietzsche as a DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING (which imputes ‘BEING’) and GRAMMAR (which imputes LOCAL AUTHORING POWERS to the BEING).  It is an abstraction based formulation which falls short of preserving the fluid-continuum, as IS ACHIEVED in the indigenous aboriginal language formulation; ‘TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE’.  The indigenous aboriginal language construction has no dependency on the abstractions of “LOCAL BEING” (the TOWN) and “LOCAL AUTHORING” (‘GROWING, DEVELOPING, PRODUCING goods).

 

The LOGIC of understanding ‘TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE’ is QUANTUM LOGIC, the BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM (as with the WAVE-FIELD constituting the CONTAINING ‘SPACE’ and material forms as CONDENSATIONS in the WAVE-FIELD) while the LOGIC of understanding ‘the TOWN that is GROWING, DEVELOPING, PRODUCING products’ is BINARY LOGIC, the EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM.  BINARY LOGIC is SIMPLER than QUANTUM LOGIC which is why BINARY LOGIC based representation constitutes OBSCURANTISM, the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known..

 

 

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In this brief introduction, the basic elements of what is leading us to dysfunction (i.e. the MISTAKEN ASSUMPTION, BUILT INTO WESTERN LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE, OF THE  LOCAL AUTHOR BASIS of DYNAMICS)  are described; i.e. the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR, as Nietzsche captures it, which is the source of FRAGMENTATION which is the entrée Bohm uses to highlight our language-induced social dysfunction.

 

THE CASCADING PROBLEMS STEMMING FROM “THE LOCAL AUTHOR DELUSION” CAN BE PUT IN PERSPECTIVE BY CONSIDERING WHAT IS GOING ON IN ‘WAVE-FIELD TERMS; I.E. WAVES HAVE A FEMALE-MALE CONJUGATE STUCTURE AND WHAT OUR WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE DOES IS TO ‘DROP OUT’ THE FEMALE CONJUGATE AND GO WITH THE MALE ASSERTIVE ASPECT AS IF THAT FULLY EXPLAINED OUR SENSE-EXPERIENCE REALITY.  THIS IS OBSCURANTISM WHICH HAS US USING OUR WESTERN LANGUAGES TO SERVE UP “SIMPLIFIED SUBSTITUTE REALITIES’ BASED SOLELY ON THE MALE-ASSERTING CONJUGATE, BACKFILLING THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING CONJUGATE WITH THE ABSTRACTION OF AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE ‘CONTAINING SPACE’.

 

So, while the above introduction describes the basics of the problem; i.e. our WESTERN CULTURE language-based LOCAL AUTHOR DELUSION, this is truly only the TIP OF THE ICEBERG to so many different ways that the LOCAL AUTHOR DELUSION is introducing dysfunction into our WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL DYNAMIC

 

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SINCE BOTH NIETZSCHE and BOHM HAVE COVERED THE BASICS OF THIS “LOCAL AUTHOR DELUSION” UNDER DIFFERENT SUBJECT TITLES, I WILL COMMENT ON WHAT I SEE AS THE MERITS OF HOW TO APPROACH THIS SUBJECT … WHICH IS COMPLICATED BY THE FACT THAT THE PROBLEM IS OUR LANGUAGE, THIS ONE I AM RIGHT NOW USING, IS TOO SIMPLE TO DIRECTLY SPELL OUT WHAT THE PROBLEM ACTUALLY IS, SINCE IT IS MISSING THE MEANS TO ARTICULATE THE PROBLEM, WHICH IS THE PROBLEM.    BUT EVEN THOUGH THIS LANGUAGE LACKS THE CAPABILITY OF ‘DIRECTLY AND EXPLICITLY’ STATING WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT, WE CAN USE IT TO IDENTIFY WHAT IS WRONG IN A ‘ROUND-ABOUT’ FASHION, … AS WITH THE EXAMPLE WHERE WE USE THE ‘TOO-SIMPLE’ CONSTRUCT ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING’ WHICH OBSCURES, BY WAY OF OVER-SIMPLIFICATION, THE UNDERSTANDING CONVEYED IN ‘THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE’.

 

Once we read the second, LESS SIMPLE version (THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE), we can see the OBSCURANTISM in the first MORE SIMPLE version (the TOWN is GROWING).  The SIMPLIFICATION is coming from reducing the FEMALE CONJUGATE which is referring to the all-included WAVE-FIELD to NOTHING; i.e. to an ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE, where the ONLY THING LEFT TO TALK ABOUT is the MALE ASSERTING CONJUGATE which is now ON ITS OWN within a new SIMPLIFIED SUBSTITUTE REALITY.  This use of a simplified language based representation is OBSCURANTISM.

 

“OBSCURANTISM”,  the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known.

 

That is, what we have done is to modify our language-based representing of reality by REMOVING THE FEMALE CONJUGATE so that we only have to deal with the MALE CONJUGATE.  This is like the mathematical operation of differentiation which separates out the local features from the nonlocal continuum.  But since the landscape is the mother of the features within it, the features are then  ORPHANED and must be ‘outfitted’ with the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR, thus making them out to be LOCAL AUTHORS of their own actions and development as in the example of ‘the TOWN’.  This is FINE FOR ABSTRACT LANGUAGE BASED REPRESENTATION PURPOSES, but it OBSCURES the reality wherein there is TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, a reality wherein everything is in flux as is the nature of our inclusion in the all-including WAVE-FIELD aka the Tao aka the transforming relational continuum.

 

If, at first, one objects to the use of the word ‘deliberately’ in the definition of OBSCURANTISM, one might consider the THIN SKULL RULE which is designed to EXCLUDE THE FEMALE CONJUGATE that is inherent in the FEMALE-MALE CONJUGATE nature of WAVE-FIELD reality.  WESTERN JUSTICE is based on the abstract concept of the LOCAL AUTHOR of actions and developments which comes from the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR.  THIS IS OBSCURANTISM and the reason we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have ‘gone for it’ is because it is NECESSARY in order to support the concept of LOCAL AUTHORING which is secured by EGO.  That is, if we are going to claim LOCAL AUTHORSHIP of actions and events, OBSCURANTISM IS NEEDED, because otherwise, everything we do would be understood, NOT AS ORIGINATING IN US, but as flowing through us as if we are included in a web of relations as is implied in the indigenous aboriginal ‘mitakuye oyasin’, … ‘everything is related’.

 

The LOCAL AUTHORING ABSTRACTION amounts to “OBSCURANTISM”,  the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known.    For example, the ‘THIN SKULL RULE’ in WESTERN LAW is exemplary of the practice of preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known.   In WESTERN CULTURE, when the BOSS or PRESIDENT claims that HE HAS AUTHORED or AUTHOR-IZED THIS OR THAT, everyone agrees, and when Mussolini was STRUNG UP at the end of WWII by an angry mob, it was because HE WAS THE AUTHOR of ITALY’s WAR INITIATIVE.  THIS CREDIT AND BLAME GAME derives from common (in WESTERN CULTURE) belief in LOCAL AUTHORING.

 

Unlike indigenous aboriginal culture adherents, WESTERN CULTURE JUSTICE IS ALWAYS ASSUMING THAT A RAPE OR MURDER is a LOCALLY AUTHORED PHENOMENON such that the social collective is PRESUME DINNOCENT apart from those specific individuals who are the AUTHORS of the VIOLENT ACTS.  The folklore that respects the actions of Robin Hood and Jean Valjean comes from the understanding that their actions were NOT SIMPLE LOCAL AUTHORING based but were induced by IMBALANCE within the dynamic of the social collective.  These deeper NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT BALANCE and IMBLANCE roots to ACTION are basic understanding in the indigenous aboriginal, Taoist/Buddhist and Advaita Vedanta cultures, while the notion of LOCAL AUTHORING is understood as LANGUAGE-BASED ABSTRACTION born of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR as Nietzsche points out.

 

As already mentioned, if we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS were to accept the REALITY that there is no such thing as LOCAL AUTHORING’, the ‘corrections’ to our common WESTERN CULTURE understandings and practices would be HUMONGOUS.  I have previously described this in the alternative terms of EMBRACE OF BINARY LOGIC (which IS OBSCURANTISM IN A NUTSHELL) since QUANTUM LOGIC (BALANCE OR IMBALANCE) IS innately LESS SIMPLE than BINARY LOGIC (“EITHER” is “OR” is not).  In this current essay, I have organized the thinking around the problem of the LOCAL AUTHOR DELUSION where the following notes are copied from an essay which highlighted the problem of BINARY LOGIC.  the message is the same, just presented with a slightly differing organization where the dysfunction can be seen starting from the DELUSION of LOCAL AUTHORING.

 

 

THE SCREW UP IS THE EMBRACE OF BINARY LOGIC  (which opens the way to the LOCAL AUTHOR DELUSION) which, although exposed as over-simplistic and in need of being discarded and replaced by QUANTUM LOGIC, we have nevertheless built into our LANGUAGE-BASED conceptualization scheme, as follows;

 

-1- The BOGUS notion that the world is divided into the ORGANIC and INORGANIC sectors.

 

-2- The BOGUS notion of the EVOLUTION OF MAN as in DARWINISM and the ‘tree of life’

 

-3- The BOGUS notion of the PRESENCE OF GOOD AND EVIL in the world

 

-4- The BOGUS notion of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and developments

 

-5- The BOGUS notion of the HUMAN ‘BEING’ as an INDEPENDENT THING-IN-ITSELF

 

-6- The BOGUS notion of the INDEPENDENT NATION with its own powers of AUTHORING actions and development

 

-7- The BOGUS notion of the GLOBAL ECONOMY based on GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION

 

-8- The BOGUS notion of the existence of the PATHOGEN such as COVID 19

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